Utoya victim recalls shooting as survivors revisit the island

A survivor from the Utoya shootings has recalled the moment that Anders
Behring Breivik started shooting on the island, an attack that left 69
people dead.

12:34PM BST 20 Aug 2011

Adrian Pracon will revisit the island for the first time since the attack on Saturday. He still has around 60 bullet splinters in his left shoulder after Breivik shot him at almost point blank with a machine gun.

He said: "As I came out of the water, I have still water over my knees, I stop and realise that he is turning toward me and I remember the feeling that you feel trapped, you feel like you have no place to go, there is nothing you can do.

"And you just hope that he is going to hit me in the head or the heart to make it go fast. And the only thing I could say was: 'Don't shoot!'. That is all I could say."

For reasons that Pracon does not understand Breivik decided to lower his gun and walk away. Pracon had two further near fatal moments, the first when he nearly drowned whilst trying to swim away from the island and the second when the gunman shot him.

He said: "And I remember laying there for a while and suddenly I could hear him placing his boots just right in front of my face.